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Updated Feb 9, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Summer Software Engineering Internship at Symantec
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Culver City, CA (took 2 weeks)
I attended USC's Viterbi Industry Networking event and had a chance to speak one-on-one with a technical, recruiter for a good length of time. I gave him my resume and he emailed back the next day asking to set up a phone interview. We had a brief back-and-forth about the time of the phone interview, and then finally got around to it.
Additionally, I attended a career fair the next day and spoke with two more members of Symantec's recruiting team. I learned more about the company and answered a few very basic technical questions (how to print only odd numbers from 1-100 using a for loops, etc). I was then told to submit my resume online through the USC recruiting portal (connectSC). I was informed today that I was rejected from this position, but I still had my phone interview.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior User Interface Designer at Symantec
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Los Angeles, CA (took 2 days)
-Interviewed via phone successfully, and then an in-person interview was arranged.
-Interviewed in-person, 1:1 with team manager first, then with both team manager and project manager.
-The overall interview process and office environment were informal, but the interview was very focused on specific job skills background, portfolio samples, and how those elements might be applied to the project at hand.
-The interviewers were laid-back, easy to relate to, and carried out the interview process professionally.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Hyderabad (India) (took 3 weeks)
Prepare well for your projects. Most of the questions are on OS, Data structure and algorithms. From the discussion It was clear that they have flexible timings like other organizations. Overall it was a good experience. They took around four tech rounds and one HR round. First they started with a phone screen but it was not a technical round.
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Reason for Declining
I didn't like the profile
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Pune (India) (took a day)
There were 2 Telephonic interviews.
Then they had 3 face to face interviews of which 2 were technical and one was taken by Manager.
It was a whole day event as all the interviews were done in same day.
On techincal front they major topics were C/C++, STL, problem solving etc.
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Reason for Declining
Due to developments on personal front.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Dec 19, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Pune (India) (took 3 days)
HR got my reference through a job site and scheduled a telephonic interview. I was interviewed by an existing employee of the same grade for which I was being interviewed. This was purely a technical round that involved computer engineering concepts, programming language and design principles.
The second round was with technical manager. I was given a case study and then asked to design a software system to solve the problem. First I was asked to create a high-level architecture diagram and then low level component diagram. Then I was asked to write a few small programs (in C#) alongwith explaining the algorithms I use to solve the problems.
The third round was with senior technical manager and this time it was mix of technical as well as inter-personal skill types of questions. I was asked to solve 5 puzzles (of level medium to difficult) and then solve a problem by writing an algorithm and using binary tree approach.
The fourth and last round was with my to-be manager for behavioral skills, and salary negotiations.
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Negotiation Details
Symantec will (almost) always offer you the best salary as per their standards. So the scope of negotiation is very less since they will give you their best offer without any negotiation.
Still, having said that, you can always try to get 3-5% over their initial offer. I was able to get extra 3% on negotiation, that went for about 30mins.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Associate Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Herndon, VA (took a day)
I had one on-campus interview. It was all about my resume and projects that I have worked on. There were 2 guys, one of them was asking me questions and the other one was making notes. Nothing much of technical in the first round. Then they called me on-site to their Alexandria, VA branch, I had 4 technical rounds. you have to write code on whiteboard. They want to assess your thought process.
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Negotiation Details
In the beginning as soon as you hear from them with the offer, I don't think you can negotiate.. Once you start talking to them with the possibilities and if they know that you are really interested and excited about this offer and you are for sure accepting the offer, they will consider increasing the base salary to some extent.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Technical Director at Symantec
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 (took 2 weeks)
The interview consisted of a prescreening telephone interview and then about a week or so later a follow up review with the hiring manager. It started out with the brief recap on the position requirements and then questions how my experience would meet the challenges of the position. It was candid, comfortable, and a good experience.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Manager at Symantec
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 (took 2 months)
unstructured, meandering phone interview. success tied directly into hiring director's motivation to fill position.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Nov 27, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Roseville, MN (took a day)
Was referred to the hiring manager, contacted him, and set up an interview. Interview was 1 on 4, and consisted of mainly technical questions, also some code writing on a whiteboard, and a couple more standard questions as well. Interview went well, and they indicated they'd get an offer out to me within a couple days. One month later, an offer finally arrived, but by that time I had already accepted elsewhere. They have a nice building and nice staff, but I got the feeling that they are severely understaffed and highly stressed.
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Reason for Declining
Took longer than promised to receive the official offer.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 days)
I was called by recruiter as they liked my resumer. She thought I am better fit for one of server backend development teams. So, inerview was scheduled with backend team which creates force framework.
Phone interview lasted an hour with questions mainly on databases, internet working and programming questions. I am good at java so I could answer most of the java questions. I answered even most of the database questions, I solved database problem with only one solution. Interviewer wanted me to tell other solutions as well. I couldn't answer some UI questions about AJAX that's where I think I lost opportunity.
Overall experience was great, process was fast and replies were prompt and courteous.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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